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Monday, May 14, 2018

Susan Hennessey of Lawfare says one must "trust" the US "intelligence community" or they won't deal with you. Why should anyone "trust" Ms. Hennessey if she can't bother reading about illegal acts of the intel "community" in NY Times and Washington Post?: 7/31/2014, NY Times Editorial Board: "The CIA's Reckless Breach of Trust." And, 7/31/2014 Washington Post cites crimes of CIA's John Brennan and DNI James Clapper and that neither was disciplined by Obama

A statement released by the CIA on Tuesday acknowledged that
agency employees had searched areas of that computer network that were
supposed to be accessible only to committee investigators. Agency
employees were attempting to discover how congressional aides had
obtained a secret CIA internal report on the interrogation program.

“Some employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding reached” between the CIA and lawmakers in 2009, when
the committee investigation was launched, according to the agency
statement, which cited a review by the CIA’s inspector general. The CIA
statement was first reported by McClatchy.

That committee’s investigation is said to be sharply critical of the CIA, finding that it exaggerated the effectiveness of harsh interrogation measures and repeatedly misled members of Congressand the executive branch. The findings are expected to be released publicly within weeks.

After briefing committee leaders, Brennan “apologized to them [Feinstein and Chambliss] for such actions by CIA officers as described in the [inspector general] report,” the agency statement said.
Brennan also ordered the creation of an internal personnel board, led
by former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), to review the agency employees’
conduct and determine “potential disciplinary measures.””

This remarkable success rate was not only disputed at the time by news reports — even supporters of the drone program called it “absurd” — but as the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the New York Times both reported later,
President Obama received reports from the very beginning of his
presidency about drone strikes killing numerous civilians. As Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser at the time, Brennan would have received these reports as well, so either Brennan knew that his claim was a lie, or he is secretly deaf.